HPE's Haven OnDemand developer platform hits commercial availability

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Haven OnDemand machine learning-centric developer platform has been around since late 2014, but it’s only coming out of beta and becoming commercially available today.Haven OnDemand, which is hosted on Microsoft’s Azure platform, provides developers with APIs and services for building data-rich applications. The roughly 60 APIs currently included in the service include features like sentiment analysis, speech recognition services, trend analysis and text classification services. Haven also includes a prediction and recommendation API that developers can train for their specific use cases. The service also includes an image recognition feature, but it’s still rather rudimentary for now and only recognizes a set of corporate logos in images. The company tells me it plans to invest more in this area going forward, though. As Colin Mahony, the company’s senior VP…